Monday, April 20, 2009

Seek and you shall find ...

... or maybe not: The searcher's goal, the finder's freedom. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Searching may be preferable to finding because finding may make it necessary to decide.
But Mark's point about contemplation brings to mind Aquinas's insight that, as Josef Pieper puts it, "it is part of the very nature of things that their knowability cannot be wholly exhausted by a finite intellect."
I remarked recently that Siddhartha was the Hesse novel I liked least. This quote makes me want to give it another look.

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